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Glossary

Explore our library of thousands of telecoms terms and acronyms defined for on-the-job reference or learning new material.

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SMG

Special Mobile Group

SMH

Signalling Message Handling

SMLC

Serving Mobile Location Centre

SMP

Service Management Point

SMpSDU

Support Mode for predefined SDU size

SMS

Short Message Service (GSM)

SMS

Short Message Service (Generic)

SMSC

Short Message Service Centre

SMSF

Short Message Service Function

SMTP

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

Sniff Mode

Sniff Mode

SNM

Signalling Network Management

SNMP

Simple Network Management Protocol

Spam

Spam

Spectrum assignment

Spectrum assignment

Spread spectrum

Spread spectrum

Spurious emission

Spurious emission

SSM

Source Specific Multicast

Stack Smashing

Stack Smashing

Standby Time

Standby Time

STiMi

Satellite and Terrestrial Interactive Multiservice

STM

Synchronous Transport Module

STM-1

Synchronous Transfer Module 1

Stream Cipher

Stream Cipher

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